Tag: FBA

Converting FBA users to SharePoint 2010

With thanks to commenter Anu, I can hereby present a way to convert old FBA users to SharePoint 2010 compatible users when converting a 2007 installation to 2010. The easy way is a simple Powershell script: $w = Get-SPWebApplication(“url”) $w.MigrateUsers(true) But this script seems to have a hardcoded limit to the number of users it

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SP2010: Creating a mixed mode login page for claims based authentication

In SharePoint 2010, claims based authentication provides us with a way of dealing with multiple sorts of authentication in one site. Where in the older SharePoint versions you needed to create a new site for each authentication method (Windows, Forms), you can now use both at the same time. This means all users are visiting

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SP2010: Cannot get membership provider with name…

Today I was yet again playing around with SharePoint 2010 which is RTM now! I’ve downloaded the RTM version from MSDN and installed it on my workstation. Earlier, I had some problems setting up a claims based authentication site with mixed mode authentication (windows + forms auth). I wanted to try that in the RTM

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